Theory Announcements: December 2015

Thursday, December 31, 2015

[DMANET] Call for Papers: The 5th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics

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ParLearning 2016 - The 5th International Workshop on Parallel and
Distributed
Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics
http://parlearning.ecs.fullerton.edu/
May 27, 2016
Chicago, USA

in conjunction with
The 30th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
(IPDPS 2016)
http://www.ipdps.org/
May 23-27, 2016
Chicago Hyatt Regency
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Call for Papers

Scaling up machine-learning (ML), data mining (DM) and reasoning algorithms
from Artificial Intelligence (AI) for massive datasets is a major technical
challenge in the times of "Big Data". The past ten years has seen the rise
of multi-core and GPU based computing. In distributed computing, several
frameworks such as Mahout, GraphLab and Spark continue to appear to
facilitate scaling up ML/DM/AI algorithms using higher levels of
abstraction. We invite novel works that advance the trio-fields of ML/DM/AI
through development of scalable algorithms or computing frameworks. Ideal
submissions would be characterized as scaling up X on Y, where potential
choices for X and Y are provided below.

Scaling up

recommender systems
gradient descent algorithms
deep learning
sampling/sketching techniques
clustering (agglomerative techniques, graph clustering, clustering
heterogeneous data)
classification (SVM and other classifiers)
SVD
probabilistic inference (bayesian networks)
logical reasoning
graph algorithms and graph mining

Parallel architectures/frameworks (OpenMP, OpenCL, Intel TBB)
Distributed systems/frameworks (GraphLab, Hadoop, MPI, Spark etc.)

Keynote talk

Dr. Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame

Organization

Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA
Sutanay Choudhury, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Arindam Pal, TCS Innovation Labs, India
Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA
Weiqin Tong, Shanghai University, China
Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Program Committee

Jaume Bacardit, Newcastle University, UK
Danny Bickson, GraphLab Inc., USA
Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
Ahmed Eldawy, University of Minnesota, USA
Dinesh Garg, IBM India Research Laboratory, India
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS),
Brazil
Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA
Joo-Young Kim, Microsoft Research, USA
Gwo Giun (Chris) Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Arijit Mukherjee, TCS Innovation Labs, India
Debnath Mukherjee, TCS Innovation Labs, India
Francesco Parisi, University of Calabria, Italy
Himadri Sekhar Paul, TCS Innovation Labs, India
Chandan Reddy, Wayne State University, USA
Gautam Shroff, TCS Innovation Labs, India
Aniruddha Sinha, TCS Innovation Labs, India
Zhuang Wang, Facebook, USA
Naixue Xiong, Colorado Technical University, USA
Jianting Zhang, City College of New York, USA

Important Dates

Paper submission: January 15, 2016 AoE
Notification: February 12, 2016
Camera Ready: February 26, 2016

Paper Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should be 6-10 single-spaced double-column pages
using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style),
including figures, tables, and references. Format requirements are posted
on the IEEE IPDPS web page.

All submissions must be uploaded electronically at
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21782

Regards,
Dr. Arindam Pal
Research Scientist
Innovation Labs Kolkata
TCS Research
http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~arindamp/

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[DMANET] CFP: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2016 | Submission Deadline EXTENDED to Jan 15, 2016

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Call for Papers
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2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016)
"Smart Living through Computing"

May 18-20, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA

http://smart-comp.org

Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE St Louis section, and
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Smart computing is emerging as an important multidisciplinary area,
which can be broadly classified into two major topics: how to design and
build smart computing systems, and how to use computing technology for
resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Applications of
smart computing span different business areas including, but not limited
to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, resource
management, healthcare, security, banking, entertainment, and social
media. The advancement of cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing,
cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are
bringing smart computing to a newer dimension and improving our ways of
living.

The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP
2016) invites original papers on any topic that is related to smart
computing. With the theme "Smart Living through Computing", SMARTCOMP
2016 will be a forum for the presentation and exchange of cutting-edge
ideas.

The topics to be addressed at SMARTCOMP 2016 will include, but are not
limited to, all aspects of smart computing such as pervasive/ubiquitous
computing, cloud computing, sensor networks, internet of things, big
data analytics, security and privacy, social computing, cognitive
computing, cyber-physical systems, smart buildings, smart cities and
grids. We encourage submissions that showcase fundamental research to
address challenges in enabling Smart and Connected Communities.
Submissions should be targeted to one of the following five major areas:

* Smart Cyber-Physical Environments and
Energy/Water/Agriculture/Transportation/Healthcare/Banking Infrastructure
* Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments
* Smart Computing Technologies
* Future Smart Computing Paradigms
* Smart Human Environments, Health, Entertainment, and Social Activities
* Smart Energy Management and Analytics

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages and formatted
according to the IEEE conference template
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).

Papers must be submitted electronically, as PDF files, through EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartcomp2016).

All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical
Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented
papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to
the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected high-quality papers will be
invited to submit (with substantial extension) to a special issue of the
Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (SCI indexed).

WORKSHOPS
SMARTCOMP 2016 will host workshops on emerging topics. To propose a
workshop, please refer to the Call for Workshop Proposals available on
the conference website, or contact the Workshops Co-chairs
<payton@uncc.edu, zhiweny@gmail.com>.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Registration:...January 15, 2016 (EXTENDED)
* Paper Submission:.....January 15, 2016 (EXTENDED)
* Notification:.........March 21, 2016
* Camera-ready:.........April 15, 2016

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES

General Co-Chairs:
Diane J. Cook, Washington State University, USA
Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Workshops Co-chairs:
Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China

Keynote Chair:
Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St Louis, USA

Panel Chair:
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Demo Chair:
Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Washington State University, USA

Publication Chair:
Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University, Finland

Registration and Finance Chair:
Maciej Zawodniok, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Peng Cheng, Zhejiang University, China
Tao Gu, RMIT University, Australia
Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland ? Baltimore County, USA
Marco Tiloca, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

Local Arrangements Chair:
Prasenjit Shil, Ameren, USA

Industry Liaison Chair:
Prakash Shahi, Nidec Motor Corporation, USA

Web Chair:
Dawn Davis, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Steering Committee:
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (Co-Chair)
Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA (Co-Chair)
Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Neeraj Suri, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

CONTACT INFORMATION
Conference Website: http://www.smart-comp.org/
Email: smartcomp2016@mst.edu

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

[DMANET] Tenure-track position in algorithms, logic and complexity, Aalto University

Aalto University School of Science (Helsinki, Finland) invites
applications for a tenure track or tenured position in algorithms, logic
and complexity.

The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University
(http://cs.aalto.fi/) provides world-class research and education in
modern computer science to foster future science, engineering and
society. The department has currently 42 professors, about 90 other
doctoral-level staff, and a total personnel count of about 350. In the
most recent U.S. News world university rankings, CS at Aalto was placed
at #83 globally and at #20 within Europe
(http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/computer-science?page=9).

For full consideration, apply by Feb 14, 2016. For further information,
please visit "http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/652".
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

[DMANET] FINAL Call for Papers: EURO Special Issue in Optimization

The submission deadline is *15th January 2016*.

Optimization: A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research

Special Issue: Making an Impact with Optimization

On the occasion of the 27th European Conference on Operational Research, EURO XXVII, which took place on July 12-15, 2015, in Glasgow, the journal Optimization invites you to submit high quality original research papers to a special issue on Optimization models and techniques for making an impact, corresponding to a major theme of EURO XXVII.

The special issue focuses primarily on papers developing new optimization models, modeling features and/or solution techniques that were driven by the need of a particular application, as well as showing the impact these models and algorithms had for the application.

Techniques can be drawn from all areas of optimization, including:
- linear programming
- semidefinite and conic programming
- semi-infinite programming
- stochastic programming
- global optimization
- nonlinear and nonsmooth optimization
- multiobjective optimization
- robust optimization
- integer and mixed-integer programming
- mixed-integer non-linear programming
- game theory
- dynamic optimization and stochastic control

In order to publish in Optimization, a strong theoretical contribution of the submitted paper is required.

Optimization is abstracted and indexed in the following databases: Astrophysics Data System, SciBase, British Library Inside, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCO Databases, ISI Current Contents, Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences, Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet, New Jour, Science Citation Index Expanded, Zentralblatt MATH/Mathematics Abstracts and Zetoc.

Guest Editors: Dr. Kerem Akartunali, Dr. Marco Laumanns, Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

Submission deadline of full papers: January 15, 2016.

Submission Instructions
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Participants of EURO XXVII are cordially invited to submit high quality original research papers. Please note that only contributions of registered participants can be accepted. The format of manuscripts for Optimization as well as guidelines and templates can be found on the journal's webpage. Each manuscript has to be submitted via the online submission system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gopt. Detailed instructions are provided during the submission process.

During the submission process authors have to answer the question 'Is the manuscript a candidate for a special issue?' Please tick 'yes' and select EURO 2015 from the list.

Editorial information
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- Guest Editor: Kerem Akartunali, University of Strathclyde, UK (kerem.akartunali@strath.ac.uk )
- Guest Editor: Marco Laumanns, IBM Research, Switzerland (mlm@zurich.ibm.com )
- Guest Editor: Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber , Middle East Technical University, Turkey (gweber@metu.edu)

Please check the following page for call details and updates:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/gopt-special-issue-making-an-impact-with-optimization

Saturday, December 26, 2015

[DMANET] Call For Papers: Healthcare special session, CODIT16

Dear colleagues,

There will be a dedicated session on 'Healthcare Management and Engineering' in the forthcoming International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT'16, the third edition). The session potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Planning and scheduling problems,
- Transportation problems (patients and caregivers)
- Quantitative techniques and Multiple Criteria Decision Making
- Optimization and simulation
- Lean Healthcare management

Hoping to see you at Malta!

Best regards
Malek Masmoudi
Assistant Professor
University of Saint-Etienne, France

The CoDIT'16 conference is the third (3rd) edition in the series of the International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, organized since 2013, the previous one CoDIT'14 having held in Metz, France, in November 2014. CoDIT'16 will be held on April 6-8, 2016 at Saint Julian's, Malta. Its purpose is to be a forum for technical exchange amongst scientists having interests in Control, Optimization, Decision, all areas of Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technologies.

All needed information are available on the Conference Website. Please visit http://www.codit2016.com/ for sessions proposals and topics of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper (6 pages max): extended to January 07, 2016
Notification of acceptance: February 07, 2016

Please feel free to further distribute this invitation also to possibly interested colleagues and students.
We apologize in case of any multiple receipt of this message.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

[DMANET] WAIFI 2016: first announcement

Dear colleagues,

This is the first announcement of the "International Workshop on the Arithmetic
of Finite Fields (WAIFI) 2016", to be held in Ghent, Belgium, July 13-15, 2016.

The confirmed invited speakers are

Simeon Ball (UPC, Barcelona)
Razvan Barbulescu (Paris 6 & 7, France)

The conference will be held in "Het Pand" (http://www.ugent.be/het-pand/en),
the main conference center of Ghent University, located in the center of Ghent.

We advise all participants to book accommodation upon choice. Please note that
July 15, 2016, is the first day of the "GHENT FESTIVITIES", so it is advisable
to book as soon as possible if you are interested in participating to the
conference.

We plan to open the registration for this conference in February 2016. If you
did not receive this message from the conference e-mail (waif@cage.ugent.be),
you may send a message to this address to be added to the mailing list in order
to receive further announcements directly.

Depending on the available funding, we might be able to support a restricted
number of participants. More and precise information will be given as soon as
the registration is open.

Please find the official call for papers at the following location:
http://cage.ugent.be/waifi/cfp2016.pdf

The conference website, http://cage.ugent.be/waifi/, will be updated regularly
with more information.

On behalf of the organizers,

Jan De Beule

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Ghent University
July 13--15, 2016
Ghent, Belgium
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

[DMANET] EuroCG 2016 - Call for papers

Call for Papers
32nd European Workshop on Computational Geometry
EuroCG 2016
Lugano, Switzerland, March 30 - April 1, 2016
http://www.eurocg2016.usi.ch

The 32nd European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG 2016)
will be held March 30 - April 1, 2016, in Lugano, Switzerland.
EuroCG is an annual workshop that combines a strong scientific
tradition with a friendly and informal atmosphere. The workshop is a
forum where researchers can meet, discuss their work, present their
results, and establish scientific collaborations. Topics of interest
cover all aspects of computational geometry, including the following:

- Discrete and combinatorial geometry and topology
- Design and analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures
- Implementation and experimental evaluation of geometric algorithms
- Numerical and algebraic issues arising from implementations
- Analysis of geometric configurations
- Geometric modeling, visualization and simulation
- Combinatorial optimization
- Graph drawing
- Computer-aided design and manufacturing
- Geographic information systems
- Robotics and virtual worlds

Submission and Proceedings

We invite authors to submit extended abstracts (4 pages, two columns)
of original research. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurocg16) using the Latex
template found in the web page of the workshop.
We remark that EuroCG does not have formally reviewed proceedings. The
abstracts will be made available for the benefit of the community and
must be regarded as a collection of preprints rather than a formally
reviewed selection of papers. Results presented at EuroCG are expected
to appear in other conferences with formal proceedings and/or in
journals. In particular, papers that have just been submitted to other
formally reviewed conferences are eligible for being presented at
EuroCG, assuming they have not appeared by the time of the workshop.

Invited Speakers

Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Emo Welzl, ETH Zurich

Program Committee

Gill Barequet (co-chair), Technion, Israel
Mark de Berg, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ioannis Emiris, University of Athens, Greece
Dan Halperin, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Martin Held, University of Salzburg, Austria
Michael Hoffmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Matya Katz, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Matias Korman, Tohoku University, Japan
Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy
Wolfgang Mulzer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Bengt Nilsson, Malmö University, Sweden
Evanthia Papadopoulou (co-chair), Università della Svizzera italiana
(USI), Switzerland
Günter Rote, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Vera Sacristán, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Maria Saumell, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Rodrigo I. Silveira, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Bettina Speckmann, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Monique Teillaud, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France
Birgit Vogtenhuber, TU Graz, Austria

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: January 11, 2016
Acceptance Notification: February 4, 2016
Camera-ready version: February 25, 2016
Early Registration: February 25, 2016

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

[DMANET] Invitation SWI 2016, Nijmegen, January 25-29, 2016

*** Invitation 114th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry
2016, Nijmegen ***

Date/location: January 25-29, 2016, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The
Netherlands

Since 1968, the Study Group Mathematics with Industry has brought
together mathematicians and companies. Following the original Oxford
model, about 60 mathematicians, ranging from PhD students to full
professors, spend a week working on real life problems, presented to
them by companies on Monday morning. During four busy days these
problems are discussed, dissected, modelled, analysed, and computed,
and results are presented on Friday.

Check on our website for more information, and also for registration:
http://www.ru.nl/swi2016/

Participation is free of charge. We can reimburse hotel costs for a
limited number of participants.

Best regards,

The organisers of SWI 2016,
Eric Cator and Ross Kang

Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP)
Radboud University Nijmegen
PO Box 9010
6500 GL Nijmegen
The Netherlands
+31 24 365 2986 / 2985
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[DMANET] CTW 2016: submission and registration are OPEN

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CTW 2016 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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14th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization
Gargnano, Italy June 6-8, 2016.

*** Submission and registration procedures are now open. ***

A limited number of rooms are also available, to stay at the workshop
venue. Therefore we encourage perspective participants to register as
soon as possible.

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* Deadline for submission: February 14, 2016
* Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2016
* Workshop dates: June 6-8, 2016
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The 14th CTW welcomes contributions on theory and applications of
discrete optimization algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in
a wide sense. Following a well established tradition, the 14th edition
of the workshop aims to disseminate scientific results, especially by
doctoral students and young researchers, in a friendly and interactive
atmosphere.

If you wish to submit a contribution, please prepare an extended
abstract of at most 4 pages by February 14, 2016 following the
guidelines on the workshop website at http://ctw16.di.unimi.it.

Workshop proceedings will be published as Electronic Notes in Discrete
Mathematics (ISSN: 1571-0653).

A special issue of an international journal, containing selected full
length papers, refereed according to high standards, is also planned.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Ali Fuat Akaya (U Marmara)
Alberto Ceselli (U Milano)
Roberto Cordone (U Milano)
Ekrem Duman (U Ozyegin)
Ulrich Faigle (U Cologne)
Johann L. Hurink (U Twente)
Leo Liberti (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Bodo Manthey (U Twente)
Gaia Nicosia (U Roma Tre)
Andrea Pacifici (U Roma Tor Vergata)
Stefan Pickl (UBw Muenchen)
Giovanni Righini (U Milano)
Rainer Schrader (U Cologne)
Ruediger Schultz (U Duisburg-Essen)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Alberto Ceselli, Roberto Cordone, Marco Premoli, Giovanni Righini,
Andrea Taverna

For further details, please contact: optlab@unimi.it

[DMANET] PhD Studentships in Operational Research

The Department of Management Science in Lancaster University currently has four EPSRC-funded PhD studentships in Operational Research (OR). These cover full fees plus a generous stipend of between £17k to £19k.

The department houses one of the largest and most influential OR groups in Europe. We are looking to recruit up to four students who:

· have a strong quantitative background (including mathematics, physics, computer science and engineering),
· satisfy the UK residency requirement for full EPSRC support (usually met by EU students whose undergraduate studies were in the UK), and
. wish to conduct research on an OR-related topic, such as Optimisation, Forecasting, Simulation or Stochastic Modelling.

Successful candidates with a suitable master's degree will be awarded a 3.5 year research studentship, while those with only a bachelor's degree will be admitted to a 1+3 year programme which incorporates an initial year of research training (MRes). As part of your doctoral training, you will be able to access a wide range of opportunities for personal and skills development, including association with Lancaster's centre for doctoral training in statistics and OR for industry (STOR-i).

Your application should be by covering letter, in which you should indicate which area is of interest to you (and why) and some possible topics for research, along with a full CV. We shall then contact short-listed candidates to put them in touch with potential supervisors for the development of a fuller research proposal. For more information, go to our webpage and/or contact Gay Bentinck: e-mail g.bentinck@lancaster.ac.uk or phone 01524 592408. Applications will be processed as soon as they are received. The appointment process will include an interview.

First round deadline: 15 February 2016
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[DMANET] Phd Position in Mathematical Optimization (University of Vienna)

A PhD position in Mathematical Optimization is available at the
University of Vienna, Institute of Statistics and Operations Research
(http://isor.univie.ac.at/).

The position is within the research project "Optimization and Analysis
of Large Scale Networks" funded by the Vienna Science and Technology
Fund (WWTF) and is available for up to three years. Further extension
might be possible. The gross salary per year is approximately EUR
28.000. The position does not include any teaching obligations (optional
teaching would be paid separately).

The candidate should have (or expect to have shortly) an excellent
master degree in operations research, mathematics, computer science or a
closely related area. A successful candidate has profound knowledge in
(computational) mathematical optimization (in particular mixed integer
programming) in theory and practice. Solid implementation skills are a
must. The candidate will work on large-scale mathematical optimization
problems arising in logistic, social and / or telecommunication
networks. Collaboration with project partners from Italy (University of
Padua) and France (ESSEC Business School, Paris) is expected.

The application should include the candidate's CV, an abstract of the
master's thesis, a motivation letter, and contact details of references
(or reference letters). The application should also mention possible
starting dates and should be sent (as a single PDF file) via email to

markus.leitner@univie.ac.at
Markus Leitner
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of Vienna
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
1090 Vienna, Austria****

The review of applicants will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled. Applications received by January 18, 2016 will
receive full consideration. Informal inquiries by email (Markus Leitner,
markus.leitner@univie.ac.at) are welcome.

Monday, December 21, 2015

[DMANET] ICADIWT 2016

The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016)
National Taipei University, Taipei
Taiwan
(March 29-31, 2016)
Proceedings will be published in IOS Press series (Frontiers in
Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA)

The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital
Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) is a forum for
scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest
research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of
Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software
Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes.

This conference (ICADIWT Edition VI) will include presentations of
contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote
speakers.

This conference welcomes papers address on, but not limited to, the
following research topics:

Internet Communication
Internet Technologies
Web Applications
Internet Software
Data Access and Transmission
Digital Communication Software
Digital Networks
Web Communication Interfaces
Internet Content Processing
Internet of Things
Internet of Everything
Data Communication
Databases and applications
Web Systems Engineering Design
Intelligent Agent systems
Semantic Web Studies
Adaptive Web applications and personalization
Navigation and hypermedia
Digital signal processing
Communication and control systems and networks
Hardware and software solutions
Innovative eHealth, Applications and Products
Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Visualization
Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Telemedicine, Telehealth and Remote Monitoring
Human factor
Software reliability
Computational Intelligence
Data mining and Knowledge discovery
Education, e-learning

Proceedings:

The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers
in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for
inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for
indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be
indexed in many databases as given at
http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing (papers in EI will be indexed
as Journal Article)

All the accepted papers will be published in Scopus and or SCI indexed
journals

Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus)
Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus
and EI Indexed)
Decision Analytics
International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI)
International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI)
Important Dates

Submission of papers January 01, 2016
Camera ready February 28, 2016
Registration February 28, 2016
Conference Dates March 29-31, 2016

Honorary Chair
Dalton Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

General Chairs
Yao-Liang Chung, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland

General Co-Chair
Tong-Ying Juang, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Advisory Chair
Rong-Lin Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Tsern-Huei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Program Chairs
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau
Jung-Shyr Wu, National Central University, Taiwan
Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Program Co-Chairs
Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania
Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan

submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/
Email: icadiwt@socio.org.uk
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[DMANET] Teaching Associate, Dept. of Management Science, Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK)

The Department of Management Science at the University of Strathclyde is seeking a Teaching Associate with expertise and experience in Business Technology. For this opportunity within a lively and hardworking group, you will be an enthusiastic teacher who is committed to useful and innovative teaching and learning methods. The appointed person should have teaching, research and/or practical experience of how business and management information systems support people working in organisations. This includes, but is not limited to, e-commerce applications and ERP systems. In addition, the appointed person should be able to contribute to the development and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate modules offered in this area within the Strathclyde Business School.

In the post, you will have the opportunity to: make an immediate contribution to the development and delivery of our modules and programmes; develop your own portfolio of learning activities individually and in collaboration with experienced lecturers; undertake professional development activities.

The department has a reputation for innovative and collaborative approaches to learning. Its education portfolio includes an undergraduate principal subject in the area of Business Analysis and Technology which is offered as part of the BA in the Strathclyde Business School as well as our flagship MSc in Operational Research and MSc Business Analysis and Consulting. These MSc programmes are offered on full-time, part-time and distance learning basis. The department also make major contributions to other Business School programmes such as the MBA.

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Susan Howick (Head of Department). Telephone +44 141 548 3798; email: susan.howick@strath.ac.uk

Online applications can be found at http://vacancies.strath.ac.uk/ and should be submitted by the closing date of 27th January 2016. Further information about the department is available at http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/managementscience/

[DMANET] PhD Position in Random Graphs and Probabilistic Combinatorics at TU Graz, Austria

One PhD Position in Random Graphs and Probabilistic Combinatorics is
available at TU Graz, Austria.

We are seeking outstanding PhD candidates with interest and experience
in random graphs, random hypergraphs, random graphs on surfaces, and
probabilistic combinatorics. The successful PhD candidate will pursue
her/his PhD degree under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Mihyun Kang
within the Doctoral Program Discrete Mathematics. The preferred starting
date is between 1 May and 1 October 2016.

Qualifications and condition of employment:
- Strong track record of mathematical studies
- Diploma/Master's degree or equivalent in mathematics or theoretical
computer science

Length and Salary:
- PhD position is for up to 4 years with a gross salary of 27.900 EUR
(30 hours per week)
- Optional teaching is paid separately
- There is additional funding for extended research stays abroad and
attendance of conferences

Application documents:
- Letter of application, which describes the candidate's academic
qualifications, academic experience, and scientific interests and
specifies the candidate's earliest possible starting date
- Curriculum Vitae
- Transcript of courses and grades, scanned copy of Diploma or Master's
degree
- Master thesis if available

The application documents (in one PDF file) should be submitted by email to

discrete@tugraz.at
Johannes Cuno and Dijana Kreso
(coordinators of the DK Discrete Mathematics)
Graz University of Technology
Steyrergasse 30/III
8010 Graz, Austria

One or two confidential letters of recommendation should directly be
sent to discrete@tugraz.at.

The deadline for applications is 18 February 2016, and interviews of
short-listed applicants are expected to take place in mid-March 2016.

http://www.math.tugraz.at/~kang/position2016.html

Sunday, December 20, 2015

[DMANET] Workshop in honour of Rolf Möhring on the occasion of his retirement

Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization and Graph Algorithms

Friday, February 12, 2016, TU Berlin

The workshop is dedicated to Prof. Rolf H. Möhring on the occasion of his retirement. The program consists of an invited lecture by Prof. Lex Schrijver and several short talks by former students. More details can be found at: www.tu-berlin.de/?166899

If you plan to attend, please send the enclosed response to Dorothea Kiefer <kiefer@math.tu-berlin.de> by January 25, 2016.

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Friday, December 18, 2015

[DMANET] CG Week Multimedia Exposition - Call for Submissions

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY MULTIMEDIA EXPOSITION

Multimedia presentations are sought for the 25th International
Computational Geometry Multimedia Exposition, which will take place in
June as part of Computational Geometry Week 2016 [socg2016.cs.tufts.edu].
Computational Geometry Week also encompasses the 32nd International
Symposium on Computational Geometry. The Multimedia Exposition showcases
the use of visualisation in computational geometry for exposition and
education, for visual exploration of geometry in research, and as an
interface and a debugging tool in software development.

CONTENT AND FORM

The content of multimedia presentations should be related to computational
geometry or neighbouring areas, but is otherwise unrestricted. We
encourage submissions that support papers submitted to the Symposium on
Computational Geometry, but this is not required. In particular, results
being presented are not required to be new. We explicitly encourage
submissions that take new views on classic results from computational
geometry, which may help to make such results more widely accessible.

The form of multimedia presentations can be anything other than the
traditional paper or slide show. Algorithm animations, visual explanations
of structural theorems, descriptions of applications of computational
geometry, demonstrations of software systems, and games that illustrate
concepts from computational geometry are all appropriate. There are no
limitations on creativity, anything that leverages the possibilities of
multimedia to enlighten and entertain the viewer while learning about
computational geometry or neighbouring areas will do. This includes
rendered animation, films with narrators and/or actors, and interactive
stories, as well as interactive demos.

QUALITY ISSUES

The "format" as well as the creative content of Multimedia submissions
influences their acceptance. For videos, a length of three to five minutes
is usually ideal; ten minutes is the upper limit. For the final version,
we require video in 720P or better, using H.264. The embedded audio stream
should be AAC of at least 128kBit/s. Telephone-sounding audio (limited
frequency range, noise) or live rooms, as often recorded with cheap
headsets, must be avoided, as well as speakers with too heavy accent.
Interactive applications (e.g., HTML5, Flash, AIR, Java, etc.) should
provide a "demo" mode where they run by themselves. They should be
submitted as a distributable package.

To conserve resources, multimedia submissions are limited to 100Mb.
Authors are free to post higher quality versions on their own web sites,
and we will include links in the electronic proceedings to their version,
in addition to the official (<100MB) version archived on
[computational-geometry.org].

It is strongly encouraged to contact the CG:MM PC well in advance to 1)
discuss the quality of a video submission (based on sample files) or 2) to
present your non-video idea and how it could be reviewed, presented, and
distributed.

SUBMISSION

Submissions should be deposited online where they are accessible through
the web or via FTP. A video submission should play trouble-free on
programs like VLC Media Player. For ease of sharing and viewing, we
encourage (but do not require) that each video submission be uploaded to
YouTube, and that the corresponding URL be included with the submission.

Each submission should include a description of at most four pages of the
material shown in the presentation, and where applicable, the techniques
used in the implementation. This four-page description must be formatted
according to the guidelines for the conference proceedings, using the
LIPIcs format. LIPIcs typesetting instructions can be found at
[http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics] and the lipics.cls LaTeX
style file at [http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz].

Send a mail to the CG:MM chair, Maarten Löffler [m.loffler@uu.nl] by
February 24, 2016, with the following information:
- the names and institutions of the authors
- the email address of the corresponding author
- instructions for downloading the submission
- if available: the link to the YouTube video
- and the PDF abstract.

We explicitly encourage multimedia submissions that support papers
submitted to the Symposium. However, submitted papers and associated
multimedia submissions will be treated entirely separately by the
respective committees: acceptance or rejection of one will not influence
acceptance or rejection of the other.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection, and given reviewers'
comments, by March 16, 2016. For each accepted submission, the final
version of the 4-page textual description will be due by March 23, 2016
for inclusion in the proceedings. Final versions of accepted multimedia
presentations will be due April 27, 2016.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 24, 2016: Multimedia submissions due
March 16, 2016: Notification of acceptance/rejection
March 23, 2016: Camera-ready versions due for abstracts
April 27, 2016: Final versions due for multimedia
June 14-18, 2016: CGWeek 2016

All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth.

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY: MULTIMEDIA EXPOSITION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Martin Demaine (MIT)
William Evans (University of British Columbia)
Michael Hoffmann (ETH Zürich)
Irina Kostitsyna (TU Eindhoven)
Maarten Löffler (Utrecht University, chair)
Martin Nöllenburg (TU Wien)
Don Sheehy (University of Connecticut)
Birgit Vogtenhuber (TU Graz)

[DMANET] CFP: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2016 | Submission Deadline EXTENDED to Jan 15, 2016

Due to numerous requests the manuscript submission deadline is EXTENDED
to JANUARY 15, 2016.

[Apologies for possible multiple copies of this CFP]

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Call for Papers
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2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016)
"Smart Living through Computing"

May 18-20, 2016 | St. Louis, Missouri, USA

http://smart-comp.org

Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE St Louis section, and
Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Paper Registration:...January 15, 2016 (EXTENDED)
Paper Submission:.....January 15, 2016 (EXTENDED)
Notification:.........March 21, 2016
Camera-ready:.........April 15, 2016
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Paper submissions should be no longer than 8 pages and formatted
according to the IEEE conference template
(http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).